Hatter

On 06/06/2023 at 23:56, Ryewolf said:

I'm against AI being used in any creative arts...

Agreed.  AI images will replace artists for things like album covers etc.

48 minutes ago, Ryewolf said:

but in a few years time when AI is winning Photography Competitions, it's going to make forums like this redundant;

As I said above, our camera club has a rule that competition entries must be 100% your own work.  This clearly bans use of Generative Fill but I think we're going to have to rely on trust - it's going to be very difficult to police.  

Nice set, Geoff.  The wren is my favourite.

No-one seems to have mentioned this yet.  Is it amazing, or the end of photography as we know it?

I've had a first play with it:

This was my original image - quite a pleasant scene, but it needs a focal point.

Attempt #1 - I asked Photoshop to add a woman in a red dress.  This is the result:

Quite impressive?  Attempt #2 - I asked for a woman in jeans and a red t-shirt:

Also pretty good, I thought.  
Unfortunately, zooming in showed up the limitations....  Pretty scary!

So, I think it's really impressive, but there's clearly a lot of scope for improvement.  It's still only in Beta though.

Having said that, as a camera club competition secretary, I am somewhat concerned over the implications for competition images in the future.
Our rules say that competition entries must be "all your own work" and an AI-generated object in the image clearly falls foul of that, but I'm not sure it's going to be possible to police that.
The alternative is to allow it, but that seems to me as defeating the object of taking photographs - we may as well just compare AI images.

What do you think?

Gareth

There were plenty of excellent images to choose from this week, but my favourite was this one from Monkey:

The full thread is here.  It's well worth a look as there are some other great photos of planes in flight there.

Well done, Monkey!

Thanks, both.

Thanks, Strav.

Luton Carnival, last Sunday.  

Well done, Kerry!

Thanks, Paul & Geoff

Thanks, all.

Thanks, all!

Oh.. wow!   I certainly didn't expect that.
Thank you very much.

Thanks, Polly.

I like these, Jeff - particularly the lighting and the dark skies.

Thanks, Jeff.

A really nice video, Paul.  It does look like a good place to visit.

Great shot! 

Congratulations, Geoff!

It's my turn to choose the POTW again.  There were plenty of excellent images to choose from this week - I particularly enjoyed Ryewolf's photos of Portmerion and as usual, there were some great macro insect shots from Paul.  However, my choice for POTW is this one from CMunzel:

I really liked the composition on this one, making it something different.

Full thread HERE.

Well done, Cheryl!

Thanks, Mark.

Congratulations, Strav!

Thanks, Dee.

Thank you, all.